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John Schultz, executive vice president and general counsel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and chairman of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association Corporate Advisory Committee:

I hope that the administration and Congress understand the benefits that LSC provides. It’s not just benefits to Republicans or Democrats. It’s to veterans, it’s to low-income families, it’s to women in abusive households.

If for some reason the LSC isn’t protected I think you will see an erosion of those services and I think you’ll see a material impact on a lot of peoples’ lives. And it isn’t just people in the inner city—quite to the contrary. Many of these services are going to rural communities in what you’d consider currently to be red states. This would have a material impact across all political lines.